Basically Brexiters expect to get exactly the same benefits of being a club member without actually being members or paying the club fees. And if not the the UK trades with partners thousands of miles away rather than opting to sell ice creams on a crowded beach just down the road...

Bolaroid wrote:So will Putin try to install a pro-Russian Government in the Ukraine now?

I do not work in the Kremlin))

I believe that the Russian course is aemed at the desintegration of Ukraine.

Ukraine at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union was the most developed republic.

Military groups in Ukraine was stronger than in the Russian (troops statcioned in the west USSR -Ukraine ) they could produce everything from aircraft carriers tille rockets!Shipyards Nikolaev, Zaporozye helуcopter engines, rocket Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov buses ,Crimean resorts, airplanes Antonov, fertile land ...

All debts of the USSR took Russia. It was all they had back then.

And with all this they decided to go to the West against us.Now they have nothing but debts.

And Russia has neither the resourcs nor the inclinуtion to build it all over again as it was after the II World War.

Ukraine in the future will disintegrate into a few territories .And Russia them in this will not interfer, let the West cares about rats.

Help will only Russian lands.

I think so.

You make an interesting and somewhat surprising post.

In the West, there is a general belief that Russia wants to expand its sphere of influence. Take back Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia and political control of the Ukraine. Evidence of that is the invasion of Crimea and incidents with Georgia. Rebuild the Soviet Union.

In the West, there is a general belief that Russia wants to expand its sphere of influence. Take back Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia and political control of the Ukraine. Evidence of that is the invasion of Crimea and incidents with Georgia. Rebuild the Soviet Union.

"The threat from the East" allows the US to invade Europe. If it disappears then people ask why in Europe are US troops?

Okay. Let us consider the occupation of the Baltic states. Why is it necesary to Russia?

Only because of the icefree ports for the transit of goods. But what happens now?

Russia to build a pipeline under the Baltic Sea and the huge port in Ust-Luga.